EVB2924833: Earl Browder, making the keynote address at the Communist Party Convention, Chicago, May 29, 1932. Browder was National Secretary of the CPUSA and would be it's candidate for President in the 1932 National election. William Foster, seated beside him, ran as CPUSA vice presidential candidate / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924842: Arthur G. Barkley (right), an Arizona truck driver who hijacked TWA Flight 486 in FBI custody. On June 4, 1970, he executed the 19th hijacking in the Americas in 1970. He demanded million, to be taken directly from the coffers of the Supreme Court because they would not hear Barkley's case regarding a .78 dispute with the I.R.S / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924869: Iranian premier Mohammed Mossadegh in his suite at New York Hospital, Oct. 12, 1951. The 69 year old leader rested before pleading Iran's case against Britain for refusing to negotiate terms for the legitimate Iranian nationalization of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company refineries / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924920: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty talks underway, July 21, 1963. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Undersecretary of State Averill Harriman, Chief Negotiator in nuclear test ban talks, watch US-USSR fifth annual field and track meet at Lenin Stadium. Leonid Brezhnev (left) was already working with the Presidium, for Khrushchev's ouster. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924929: Owen Lattimore (far right) testified to Senate Tydings Committee on April 6, 1950. He swore he was never a Russian spy or a Communist, before the 'Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees'. Opposite Latimore are Senators Bourke Hickenlooper; Millard Tydings; Theodore Green; Brien McMahon. Sen. Joseph McCarthy is in second row / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925030: Pope Pius XII celebrated the 10th anniversary of his of his papacy at the Sistine Chapel. March 26, 1949. In full Papal Regalia, he wears the Triple Crown and a richly embroidered 'Cope', a liturgical vestment, fastened with a highly ornamented, clasp called a 'Morse'. The Pontiff is 'Sedia Gestatoria,' a portable throne carried by twelve footmen / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925210: H.V. Kaltenborn at the CBS microphone, c. 1938-1940 as Europe moved toward war. During the Munich Crisis, in Sept. 1938, he slept in the CBS studio and reported day and night from until the day after the signing of the Four Power Agreement on Sept. 29th. He played himself in two movies, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951). T / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925219: Jomo Kenyatta, future President of Kenya, in a monkey skin given him by Kikuyu (Gikuyu) tribesmen. Aug. 21, 1961. Kikuyu was the largest ethnic group in Kenya, but still represented less than 25% of the population. As leader of Kenya's KANU (Kenya African National Union) Kenyatta advocated, unified state with a strong central government over an ethnic-federal state favored by his opposition / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925291: Legendary movie director D. W. Griffith broadcasting, 'D. W. Griffith's Hollywood.' c. 1930. The NBC radio program was a review of his life and history of Hollywood. The master silent movie director of the 1910s and early 1920s, worked on few films after 1925. In 1936, he was given a special Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925098: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins addressing leaders of Labor and Industry Conference. Washington, D.C., May 4, 1937. She asked they cooperate with state and federal governments to avert strikes and lockouts as she developed formula for collective bargaining under the Wagner Labor Relations Act / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925143: Women attending the National Convention of the Woman Suffrage Association. Philadelphia, Nov. 21 -26, 1912. 1_Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President. 2_Mrs. William M. Ivins. 3_ Miss Lucy Anthony. 4_Donald Booker, Baltimore. 5_Katharine Hepburn, Hartford, Connecticut. 6_ Mary Ware Dennett, Treasurer. 7_Susan Fitzgerald, Boston. 8_Jesse Ashley, Secretary. Inset square_Jane Addams / Bridgeman Images